Powerful and embracive, The Transformation of Black Music explores the full spectrum of black musics over the past thousand years as Africans and their descenda

The Transformation of Black Music includes a full spectrum of black musics from four continents as it argues for a re-codification of black musics and performer

Black Music Matters: Jazz and the Transformation of Music Studies is one of the first books to promote the reform of music studies with a centralized presence o

A lively and provocative account of the arts in Britain, Building Jerusalem suggests that even after fifty years of state planning of Britain's "leisure industr

The year 1917 was unlike any other in American history, or in the history of American music. The United States entered World War I, jazz burst onto the national